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Still Killing Us Softly: Advertising's Image of Women (1987)

Still Killing Us Softly: Advertising's Image of Women (1987)

Documentary
Release Date: 1987, January 1
Directors: Margaret Lazarus
Countries: United States of America
Production: Cambridge Documentary Films
Cast: Jean Kilbourne

Overview:

This follow-up to Jean Kilbourne's award-winning 1979 documentary, KILLING US SOFTLY, further probes the harmful effects of stereotypical and sexist images in advertising. Kilbourne conducts a lecture within the film, displaying still images of women, men, children, and violent crime via a slide projector. By emphasizing the dehumanization of women by television's body-image obsession, she teaches viewers how America is taught to categorize women primarily as sex objects.